For Halloween I did actually make a quickie Halloween costume for my son. He wanted to be Link from Legend of Zelda (and the rest of that video game series), in Red. So I whipped out a quick t-tunic and red hat this afternoon for him to wear (all serged but open, except the neckline by hand). Which means he gets to wear the red tunic at our local ( Read more... )

The purple fairy was finished shortly before it was worn for Halloween. The bodice and skirt portions went together pretty well, even with the obvious mismatched band on the underside, since I used stash binding materials instead of buying something new. It is supposed to have elastic at the waist, but I decided it wasn't necessary in order to ( Read more... )

Got most of the fairy bodice done, and started into the skirt with lots of petals to serge. Got 4 done, 4 more to go. Polyester organza doesn't shift too badly with the serger, but it is pinned down a bit which slows me down. It was harder to do the narrow machine hem even with my special foot, but it looks decent even with the slight ruffle to the ( Read more... )

Just wanted to post that I've begun cutting into Relle's purple sparkly fabrics for her Tinkerbell friend costume for Halloween. Still have one more fabric to cut, the tulle for the skirt support. Her fabrics are all sparkly, except the tulle, so I expect to have lots of glitter around the house when I am done. And she picked out the color, well, ( Read more... )